William Seward Burroughs I
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- This article is about the inventor. For the Beat Generation writer, see William S. Burroughs.
William Seward Burroughs I (January 281857 - September 141898) was an American inventor, born in Rochester, New York.
Initially a bank clerk, he invented a "calculating machine" designed to ease the monotony of clerical work. He was a founder of the American Arithmometer Company (1886), which later became the Burroughs Adding Machine Company (1904), then finally the Burroughs Corporation (1953). He was the grandfather of William S. Burroughs the Beat Generation writer, and great-grandfather of William S. Burroughs, Jr., also a writer.
He died in Citronelle, Alabama and was interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.
[edit] Patents
- U.S. Patent 388,116 Calculating-machine. Filed January 1885, issued August 1888.
- U.S. Patent 388,117 Calculating-machine. Filed August 1885, issued August 1888.
- U.S. Patent 388,118 Calculating-machine. Filed March 1886, issued August 1888.
- U.S. Patent 388,119 Calculating-machine. Filed November 1887, issued August 1888.
[edit] External links
- William S. Burroughs biography and science resources at The Franklin Institute's Case Files online exhibitda:William Seward Burroughs
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